Where is Patience Jonathan?

It's no news that the wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has
not been seen in public since President Goodluck Jonathan lost the
March 28 presidential election to Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of
the All Progressives Congress.

Punch reports that, some dignitaries including serving and former
government officials had visited Jonathan to commend him for conceding
defeat and solidarise with him on his loss.

One of the visitors had told our correspondent that Mrs. Jonathan also
received visitors inside the President’s official residence same day.

“After meeting the President in the new Banquet Hall located within the
premised of his office, I also visited the First Lady inside the
President’s residence before leaving. She was in high spirit when I met
her,” the former government official said.

But since then, the President’s wife had not been seen in public.She did
not attend the Good Friday service held inside the Aso Villa Chapel
with her husband neither did she attend the Easter Sunday service inside
the same chapel.

Mrs. Jonathan and the President’s mother, Eunice, had always been accompanying Jonathan to such services.

The last time she was seen in public was penultimate Saturday when she
and her husband voted at their polling unit in Otuoke, Bayelsa State.

While many believed however that she must have been too devastated by
her husband’s electoral loss to appear in public so soon, our
correspondent’s investigation however showed that Mrs. Jonathan might
have travelled out of the country.

A Presidency source who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that
Mrs. Jonathan travelled to the United Kingdom during the week to sort
out some domestic issues.

“She is in UK. She may use the opportunity of the trip to visit her
children,” the source said.President’s wife would come back to the
country.

Mrs. Jonathan’s spokesman, Mr. Ayo Adewuyi, did not pick the calls made
to his mobile telephone line on Monday.Adewuyi did not also reply a text
message sent to him on the mater.

It will be recalled that Mrs. Jonathan had during one of the
presidential rallies she organised ahead of the elections claimed that
Buhari would send her to jail if he was elected